> ][<en's a big fan of the "walk 'n talk" and I can't help but beleive 
> that it's a reaction to the cacophony he hears and wants to translate.
Rude,

I think it has more, on my part, to watching what you all do when let 
loose on an historic building that you are not particularly conscious of 
due to the intense focus placed on seeking and seeing and exploring. It 
is not so much the power of the walk n' talk to the walking talker, the 
enthusiasm and the 'filter of perception' in the ongoing talk TALK that 
immediately translates the authentic object without a high level of 
interference -- the idea of trying to 'teach' something -- forget 
teaching, go direct to communication and express... the teacher carries 
with them all the syllabus that there needs to be in their decades of 
experience. Once that level of detail of enthusiasm is communicated then 
the student has a guide that will last them a lifetime to seek out the 
technical details.

On another bent, the essay I am reading right now frm Karlheinz 
Stockhausen he talks about microphony. He had got himself a large gong 
(tam tam) that was 5' diameter that he hung in his garden. He noticed 
that if he struck it with his finger or a pebble that it made sounds 
when he held his ear within a few inches of it that varied in the subtle 
tonalities and vibrations... sounds that could not be heard from a 
distance. He then gathered together all sorts of household implements 
and sensitive recording equipment and played with tapping, scratching, 
rubbing the tam tam with spoons and such.

How often do you tap on an element of an old building to hear it's sound?

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